Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bvk 4664 days ago
The game can't run statistics on the player's style.

>Casino commissions, however, mandate that a gaming machine cannot change its playing style in response to particular opponents.

The algorithm is encoded in a neural net; there is no calculation of raw probabilities involved, at least in the sense programmers are used to.

1 comments

Interesting. I doubt they would design a neural net without the probability as direct input though. I don't think the machine can be this good especially with such limitations. It may be exploiting some average-gambler trait and ultimately will be beaten once the pro players figure it out.